Small Boats
Small boats and big problems
The asylum issue is not going away, and Keir Starmer must face it soon
Braverman’s dilemma
The Home Secretary was in an impossible situation, with Number 10 wanting the rhetoric of action without the substance
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
It’s the economy, stupid
The US election was another reminder of people’s biggest political priority
Clickbait criticism
A depressing, inarticulate complaint of a generation too paralysed even to make art
An abuser hiding in plain sight
There was shock when a feted theatre director turned out to be a paedophile who collected child rape porn but were the clues there all along?
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
A full-blooded blow-out
Kurt Weill: Symphonies, Seven Deadly Sins (DG)
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
An irreversible step
If Britain embraces euthanasia for the terminally ill, it won’t end there